| | 1 | Author: | Dunn, Leslie Clarence, 1893-1974 | | | | | Geneticist. Geneticist, Connecticut Agricultural Station, Storrs, 1920-1928; professor, zoology, Columbia University, 1928-1962, emeritus professor, 1963-1974; director, Institute for the Study of Human Variation, 1952-1958. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clark Wissler and L. C. Dunn
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 20 December 1929 - 8 January 1930 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | Galton Society luncheon | | | | Source: | Leslie Clarence Dunn Papers (B D917) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 2 | Author: | Dunn, Leslie Clarence, 1893-1974 | | | | | Geneticist. Geneticist, Connecticut Agricultural Station, Storrs, 1920-1928; professor, zoology, Columbia University, 1928-1962, emeritus professor, 1963-1974; director, Institute for the Study of Human Variation, 1952-1958. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between L. C. Dunn and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 5 August 1933 - 20 January 1941 | | | | Extent: | 55 letters | | | | Abstract: | 41 letters (26 to Boas, 15 to Dunn) + 15 letters to/from G. Breit, F. D. Fackenthal, E. R. Murrow, Mark van Doren, and others. Columbia University affairs; Columbia University Faculty Fellowship Fund Committee for Displaced German Scholars. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 3 | Author: | Dunn, Leslie Clarence, 1893-1974 | | | | | Geneticist. Geneticist, Connecticut Agricultural Station, Storrs, 1920-1928; professor, zoology, Columbia University, 1928-1962, emeritus professor, 1963-1974; director, Institute for the Study of Human Variation, 1952-1958. | |
| | | Title: | L. C. Dunn Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | Circa 1920-1974 | | | | Extent: | 15.5 linear feet (approximately 15,000 items) | | | | Abstract: | Dunn was interested in the topic of race and wrote several books and papers on the subject. They include Heredity, Race and Society with Theodore Dobzhansky in 1946; Biology and Race in 1951; and Heredity and Evolution in Human Populations, 1958. His papers contain the manuscript for a 1960 revision of Race and Biology (sic); letters to Franz Boas, 13 June 1934 to 21 October 1941, on the characteristics of races and genetic versus environmental factors; correspondence and notebooks concerning a genetic study of the Jewish community in Rome; personal correspondence (1945-1955) with Gunnar Dahlberg, professor of race biology, Uppsala, Sweden; and communication with Roger Pineau of the U. S. State Dept. regarding an UNESCO conference on the "Biological Aspects of Race" in 1964. There is extensive correspondence between Dunn and many of the foremost geneticists of this century on many topics. See also the description in the Bentley Glass Guide to Genetics Collections | | | | Source: | L. C. Dunn Papers (B D917) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 4 | Author: | Dunn, Leslie Clarence, 1893-1974 | | | | | Geneticist. Geneticist, Connecticut Agricultural Station, Storrs, 1920-1928; professor, zoology, Columbia University, 1928-1962, emeritus professor, 1963-1974; director, Institute for the Study of Human Variation, 1952-1958. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Frederick Osborn and L. C. Dunn
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 4 January 1952 - 1 May 1952 | | | | Extent: | 6 letters | | | | Abstract: | 6 letters (2 to Dunn, 4 to Osborn). Eugenics; race and biology; publications | | | | Source: | Leslie Clarence Dunn Papers (B D917) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
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